Bruno Erdmann
Bruno Erdmann (born October 9, 1915 in Darmstadt , † January 14, 2003 ibid) was a German painter of Informel and concrete painting .
life and work
After studying at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Johann Vincenz Cissarz , Karl Peter Röhl and Franz Karl Delavilla , Erdmann worked from 1943 to 1944 as a theater painter with Max Fritzsche at the Landestheater Darmstadt . Because of a tuberculosis disease, he was exempt from military service. Erdmann returned to Darmstadt in 1951 from a spa stay in Switzerland and lived there as a freelance artist from 1955, joining the New Darmstadt Secession in 1956 .
Erdmann's work can be divided into different phases, which are very clearly separated from one another:
- Urban landscapes (especially Paris ), 1956–1958
- Informal paintings with a “constructive” group (1958–1960) and a “gestural group” with “night” pictures (1960–1964)
- gestural-abstract watercolors and watercolor collages , 1964–1966
- Collages on Japanese paper , 1967–1973, first gestural- abstract , then geometrical-constructive
From 1973 Erdmann began to paint again, he now preferred acrylic paints and consolidated the geometric forms of the last Japanese paper collages into rectangular layers. Since the late 1970s, he has been researching topics such as surface and space, framing and framing, light and silence in rectangular compositions as well as horizontal (and a few vertical) layers in color reduction.
In 1981 Erdmann received the Villa Romana Prize , which enabled him to spend ten months in Florence. There he is particularly impressed by the works of Antonio Calderara .
Awards
- Villa Romana Prize , 1981
- Johann Heinrich Merck Award, 1986
- Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt , 1994, combined with a large retrospective at Mathildenhöhe in 1998
Works in public collections
Works by Bruno Erdmann have the following public collections:
- Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
- Municipal art collection / Mathildenhöhe , Darmstadt
- Wiesbaden Museum
- Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- City of Zurich
- Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
literature
- Walter Vitt: The painter Bruno Erdmann . Darmstadt / Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-9800144-5-2
- Bruno Erdmann. Painting. Retrospective 1951–1998 . Catalog exhibition Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-9804553-5-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Bruno Erdmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erdmann, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2003 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |